Having found little solace in Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, nothough describes, in part two of an ongoing blog, how his diminishing interest in gaming couldn't even be jump started by the Dreamcast's excellent line-up. An ill-advised foray into piracy further devalued games for him, too.
"I’d dabbled with Crazy Taxi, Sega Rally 2, Jet Set Radio, RE Code: Veronica and Metropolis Street Racer (probably my most memorable game of that particular period) as well as others without ever coming close to completing them," he writes. "And why would I? It didn’t make a difference anymore, I’d just move on to the next £1 experience."
It's not all doom and gloom though, all it took was a Spartan to reignite his passion...
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